<r>mccleanp said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Another alternative (for the less hardware inclined) would be to use a USB CAN interface such as <URL url="http://www.peak-system.com/Pro.....wUid%5D=16">http://www.peak-system.com/Pro.....wUid%5D=16</URL>.<br/> <br/> More expensive probably, but it comes with a G...

<r>You can download some slides with a reasonable amount of technical detail from ARM:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.arm.com/files/downl.....ecture.pdf">http://www.arm.com/files/downl.....ecture.pdf</URL><br/> <br/> So far it looks quite promising. I'm really glad that they've bumped the number of...

<t>Even if they don\'t hack the hardware, I think it\'d be a very valuable part of the educational experience for kids to get used to handling the bare board (providing the ESD protection is up to it, which it sounds like it is) just so that they don\'t build up the idea that computers contain forbi...

Good stuff!

Nice to see Scratch running on the Raspberry Pi in that video, by the way.

Haiku has had an ARM port in the works for quite a while now... I\'d love to see it running on the Pi, it seems like such a perfect fit.

<t>That's good news... However, I'd echo the sentiments expressed in the last few paragraphs that Liz quoted - children should start learning to program when they're nine or ten so that the basic concepts become second nature to them. GCSE and A-level age is probably not the best time to try to intr...

Haiku (a BeOS-like operating system) would be a really nice fit for the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.haiku-os.org/

Probaby two B's (or perhaps an A and a B for comparison) to play with initially, then more of whichever type seems suitable for a given project once I've got the measure of the system.